by Mark Swilling | Oct 20, 2016 | Blog
Every year we have taught a module called Globalization, Governance and Civil Society. This year I took it over and oriented it away from a focus on the problem (the usual suspects: financialized globalisation, neo-liberalism, rule by the 1%, inequality, poverty and...
by Mark Swilling | Oct 20, 2016 | Blog
In this article, we see our crazy world through the 81 year old eyes of Noam Chomsky – the ultimate iconoclast. Without him sweeping away the intellectual debris that clutters up our minds, thinking solutions would be impossible. But don’t expect him to...
by Mark Swilling | Oct 20, 2016 | Blog
Anthony Turton has for years warned about South Africa’s water crisis, and very little has been done in response. Now he is being proven correct. See this report on a recent talk he did. I am really struck by the statement that in the water sector there is no...
by Mark Swilling | Oct 13, 2016 | Publication
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), the largest association of cities in the world, has published GOLD IV 2016 the Fourth Global Report on Decentralization and Local Democracy. Entitled Co-Creating the Urban Future, this is probably the most comprehensive and...
by Mark Swilling | Oct 10, 2016 | Blog
Attending today a workshop in Cape Town hosted by HSRC on the role of universities as anchor institutions in urban development. Main speaker is David Perry, a US-based academic who has extensively studied the way US Universities have become active agents of urban...
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